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Get Started Learning General Relativity Online

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Happy 2009! Five Tutorials for Philosophers of Physics

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Special: What’s With the Economy.

…o make and sell burgers in. The wealthy Scrooge McDuck had enough money to buy buildings. So they struck the following deal. McDuck gave BurgerBee the money to buy a building for their burger joint (say, 100,000 dollars). In return, BurgerBee gave McDuck a little certificate, which says that BurgerBee will pay McDuck MUCH MORE than the original amount (say, 200,000 dollars). But the payments are made in small amounts, every month, over the course…

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Stop commercializing academic publishing

…widely as possible.”) Unfortunately, an English version of the book is not freely available. At least, not anymore. It was freely available, on underground websites like Library.nu (rest in peace). Such websites came into existence because you did not meet the aims of the academic community. While we worked to share information, providing publishers with free content to put in their books and journals, you turned around and sold that content at co…

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